Here in central Florida, the heat of early summer already hums beneath every layer of being. Mornings arrive thick with the promise of afternoon storms. There’s a gathering density to the days—a weight, a waiting. This tension—between stillness and storm, knowing and unknowing—runs through our new issue. In a time that feels increasingly unsettled, these pages offer moments of stillness and searching, small reckonings that resist easy resolution.

There’s a sacred unknowing that threads its way through our summer issue. In the opening poem, Jennifer Rood’s “Pilgrimage to Upper Cave Creek,” the speaker confesses, “I do not know what it means” and “I cannot know why I came to do this,” but recognizes a call: “I feel a need / and I must follow where it leads.” In Richard Collins’s “The Changing Light at Stone Nest,” “certainty is sought and then discarded” only to be “then taken up again.” This movement between meaning and uncertainty is, in part, a failure of language to represent the fullness of experience: D. E. Green tells us, “Cada frase es una metáphora,” describing the inexactitude of speaking a second language but also suggesting that all language is second to the directness of lived experience. A pair of poems by Charlene Stegman Moskal similarly grapples with the names of things, with the meaning of names, and with the knowledge of those names and their meanings. And the prose poem that closes the issue, VA Smith’s “I Have Not Been Able To Write the Lake Ontario Poem” reaches for a way to capture memory and meaning, but concludes as the “poem shifts, rounds the corner, slips away.”

Issue Thirty-Seven includes poetry and prose by Becky Boling, Casey Jo Holman, Charlene Stegman Moskal, D. E. Green, Dharmavadana, Diem Okoye, Don Farrell, Jennifer Rood, Karen Bramblett, Melinda Mullet, Nancy Huxtable Mohr, Richard Collins, Sarah Cummins Small, Sarah Wolfe, Skyler Lambert, and VA Smith, and images by Coriander Focus and Ernest Williamson III. The cover image is by Coriander Focus.

Digital and print versions of our spring issue are available through Mag Cloud. Digital versions of the issue are free, and perfect-bound print copies of the issue cost twelve dollars. You can read the issue online and order print copies at this link.